Celendræ, Celendris, and Celenderis, a colony of the Samians in Cilicia, with a harbour of the same name at the mouth of the Selinus. Lucan, bk. 8, li. 259.
Celeneus, a Cimmerian, who first taught how persons guilty of murder might be expiated. Flaccus, bk. 3, li. 406.
Celenna, or Celæna, a town of Campania, where Juno was worshipped. Virgil, Æneid, bk. 7, li. 739.
Celer, a man who, with Severus, [♦]undertook to rebuild Nero’s palace after the burning of Rome. Tacitus, Annals, bk. 15, ch. 42.——A man called Fabius, who killed Remus when he leaped over the walls of Rome, by order of Romulus. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 837.—Plutarch, Romulus.——Metius, a noble youth to whom Statius dedicated a poem.
[♦] ‘untook’ replaced with ‘undertook’
Celĕres, 300 of the noblest and strongest youths at Rome, chosen by Romulus to be his body-guards, to attend him wherever he went, and to protect his person. The chief or captain was called Tribunus Celerum. Livy, bk. 1, ch. 15.
Celetrum, a town of Macedonia. Livy, bk. 31, ch. 40.
Celeus, a king of Eleusis, father to Triptolemus by Metanira. He gave a kind reception to Ceres, who taught his son the cultivation of the earth. See: [Triptolemus]. His rustic dress became a proverb. The invention of several agricultural instruments made of osiers is attributed to him. Ovid, Fasti, bk. 4, li. 508; bk. 5, li. 269.—Virgil, Georgics, bk. 1, li. 165.—Apollodorus, bk. 1, ch. 5.—Pausanias, bk. 1, ch. 14.——A king of Cephallenia.
Celmus, a man who nursed Jupiter, by whom he was greatly esteemed. He was changed into a magnet stone for saying that Jupiter was mortal. Ovid, Metamorphoses, bk. 4, li. 281.
Celonæ, a place of Mesopotamia. Diodorus, bk. 17.